WEATHERITE Endorse New European Data Centre Cooling Initative

Weatherite Building Services (WBS) are amongst the first companies
in the UK to adopt a new European initiative designed to improve
energy efficiency in Data Centres and to be awarded official
endorser status.

The EU Code of Conduct on Data Centres’ Energy Efficiency is a
voluntary initiative aimed at reducing the environmental, economic
and energy supply security impact on data centres.

The Code of Conduct focuses on two primary areas – IT capacity
available for power consumed (IT Load) and facilities that support
the IT load, such as cooling systems, PDU’s and UPS.

The relentless increase in power in the latest generation of data
centres has led to a substantial increase in energy use and higher
demand for cooling, to ensure IT systems run at optimum performance.

Weatherite are in the Vanguard of energy efficient cooling
technology for data centres, having developed packaged free cooling
systems, that utilises freely available outside air substantially
reducing both energy consumption and CO2 emissions.

By adopting the energy efficient practices and agreeing to use the
codes standards to develop products that help data centres, achieve
the Code of Conduct objectives, Weatherite has become an accredited
endorser of the initiative and has committed to working with data
centre operators to help them achieve the standards and reduce their
energy costs.

Commenting on the move, Martin Thomas, WBS sales director, “We are
totally committed to developing the most energy efficient cooling
solutions for data centres and, by adopting the new EU Code of
Conduct, data centre Managers/Developers can have complete
confidence in our abilities to help them achieve their energy and
CO2 objectives.

WBS has over 38 years experience in all aspects of building service
including heating, ventilation, air conditioning, commercial kitchen
ventilation/extraction, data centre/IT cooling, boiler house
refurbishment/replacement and all aspects of M & E services. WBS
offers its customers a complete building services solution-from one
single source including total project management and full design,
installation and commissioning activities.

WBS is part of the £40m Weatherite Group, one of the UK’s leading
HVAC and Building Services organisations.